From the official uniform to the bun, everything is clean and noble, from appearance to temperament, Wei Shilang, who is elegant and elegant, took the letter and saw the handwriting on the envelope, the light color of the wind and clouds dispersed, and his pupils shook uncontrollably.

At the beginning of the night, the sunset faded, and it was the time when the yin and yang alternated, and there was a cool breeze blowing on the back of the neck......

Uncle Wei's white and slender fingers pinched the edge of the envelope slightly, and then quickly tucked the envelope into the sleeve of his robe.

Stepping into the mansion like this, and walking all the way, Wei Shuyi only felt that the arm that hid the letter was going to become cold and stiff, as if he was immersed in the cold pool of winter, and every inch was frozen into ice.

Wei Shilang went straight to the small Buddha hall.

When the incense is burned, in front of the Bodhisattva, do you dare to open the letter and look at it.

The incense mist is shrouded, and the particularly beautiful handwriting on the letter seems to be dyed with a bit of "fireworks atmosphere", and there is no imaginary gloomy feeling.

Looking at the words of thanks on the letter, Wei Shuyi's eyebrows relaxed a little.

She told the latest situation in the letter, saying that the overall situation was temporarily controllable, and she would be careful to watch out for Dong Luo at the same time.

She also said that before the New Year's Festival, she will definitely send a decent good news back to Beijing, so that the people of Beijing who are worried about the nuisance of the Japanese army can have a good New Year with peace of mind.

Uncle Wei couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly.

Even in such an unpopular predicament, she is still so high-spirited, fearless, and vigorous.

Such a vigorous soul...... It seems that the world should not be afraid.

Uncle Wei seemed to be able to hear the instinctive fear in his heart, the sound of being unloaded little by little.

Until he saw ...... After she greeted the Mid-Autumn Festival in the letter, she also greeted the Double Ninth Festival!

Wei Shuyi's hands trembled, and he almost threw the letter out like a frightened crane.

After Wei Shuyi came out of the Buddhist hall, Changji stepped forward, and when he saw his own Lang Jun's face, he couldn't help asking, "Lang Jun, where are you unwell?"

Uncle Wei didn't answer, but said, "Send this letter to my mother for a look......

Since the letter also greeted his mother by the way, he could not be frightened alone.

"Let's wait a little later." Out of one of the few filial piety days, Wei Shuyi told Changji: "It's not too late to wait for my mother to finish the dinner."

Although Nagayoshi was confused, he still did it.

The next day, Wei Shuyi returned home early and was stopped by his father halfway.

"Zi Gu ......" Zheng Guogong Wei Qin took his son's arm and went to the gazebo next to him to speak, "Whose letter did you send to your mother last night?"

Wei Shuyi seemed puzzled and asked, "Why did my father ask this?"

「…… Your mother, when she read the letter, was distraught!" Zheng Guogong lowered his voice and frowned, "I couldn't give up at night, I finally fell asleep, and I even cried in my sleep!"

Although his wife hugged himself and cried in his sleep, he was somewhat moved, but he asked his wife about it early in the morning, but his wife refused to elaborate.

Zheng Guogong was scratching in his heart.

"Father is saying...... When my mother saw the letter, she cried in her sleep?" Wei Shuyi asked in a complicated tone.

Zheng Guogong looked sad: "Yes, and what are you still muttering...... It was like calling someone's name, but it sounded so vague that I couldn't tell it."

Wei Shuyi fell into unspeakable thoughts.

His mother's attitude towards "His Royal Highness the Former Prince" was very unusual, which he had always been aware of and puzzled about.

It stands to reason that her mother is the companion of the eldest princess Chongyue, and even if she has an intersection with His Royal Highness the former prince, she will not have too deep friendship......

But now my mother reacted like this, and after seeing the letter, she cried in her dreams and was so worried about it......

Is there a possibility that he is just talking about a hypothesis......

Mother, will she...... His Royal Highness the Crown Prince......

After all, it is such a dazzling and precious teenager, girlish feelings, moved by the heart, it seems to be human nature......?

This guess

think, for a while, it is difficult for Uncle Wei to accept it.

He is not a pedantic person, and it is not that he cannot accept that his mother had affection for the man next to him when he was a teenager, what he can't accept is ...... In this way, is he not equal to his mother...... At different times, fell in love with the same soul?!

「……」

Rao is a person who doesn't pay much attention to etiquette in his bones, and it is difficult for Wei Shuyi at this moment not to be hit hard by this bizarre and absurd conjecture.

The young man tilted his head slightly, and in a bit of a trance, he raised a hand and landed on his forehead, and then covered his closed eyes, and the sleeves of his wide official robe covered his face.

Sure enough, in the first 21 years, everything he got was too smooth?

"Zigu?" Zheng Guogong looked at his son, who had also become strange, and couldn't help but be a little anxious: "You asked me, but you also said something."

"That letter was sent back by Chang Niangzi from Jiangdu, and my mother should just be worried about Chang Niangzi's difficulty in resisting the Japanese......

Uncle Wei removed his hand and smiled reluctantly at his father: "Father doesn't have to worry too much, let's go to the garden to enjoy the flowers."

After speaking, he raised his hand and saluted, and left on his own.

"Zi Gu ......" Zheng Guogong couldn't stop shouting, so he could only sigh incomprehensibly on the spot.

Why do you think that in the past six months, my wife and son are not normal? What the hell are you hiding from him?

When Zheng Guogong was thinking, when his eyes moved, he caught a glimpse of a clump of autumn chrysanthemums blooming early, and two flower bones appeared, and he was immediately hooked, and walked over quickly to watch.

There are countless exotic flowers and plants in Zheng Guogong's Mansion, and because of the cultivation intentions, there are many florists to maintain, so the seasonal flowers in the garden always bloom earlier than other places, which is both beautiful and first.

If the flowers and plants can also speak, or they have to think that the flowers and plants in Zheng Guogong's mansion are not serious enough, they must always be open, have no ethics, and report the season indiscriminately.

Serious chrysanthemums like them don't begin to bud until the end of July.

At the end of July, outside a small village in Xiazhou, on the side of the rugged mountain road, a few bushes of wild chrysanthemums have just begun to produce tiny buds.

In the village, in a small courtyard with a stucco wall, thatched roof, and a fence, there is a slightly jerky sound of children reading at this moment.

In the courtyard, Zheng Chao, who was wearing a gray robe and had not taken care of his beard for a long time, sat on the top, with a shabby small table in front of him.

A gust of wind blew, rolling up the fallen leaves in the courtyard, and Zheng Chao covered his mouth sideways and sneezed.

Recently, he will sneeze from time to time, but he has never contracted any wind cold, which is also strange, I am afraid that someone will always talk to him behind his back.

Zheng Chao took out the cotton handkerchief in his sleeve and wiped his mouth and nose to ensure that his appearance was not damaged.

However, when he was about to turn around, he heard the exclamation of a child.

Someone came to Zheng Chao's desk with a kitchen knife, the kitchen knife was rusty, and he was pointing at Zheng Chao at the moment.

The one holding the kitchen knife was one of the two young men.

Another had closed the door of the small broken courtyard and threatened the children to prevent them from screaming.

Zheng Chao was still sitting in the same place, but he didn't look panicked, but asked the young man holding the kitchen knife in confusion, "Halfway through the class, why is this so?"

"Nonsense, of course it's for money!" The young man took a sip, "Otherwise, who wants to listen to your rambling prayers!"

"Honestly hand over your money, I can not hurt anyone!"

Zheng Chao sighed: "What if I don't pay?"

"Don't pay? Then don't blame me......" The young man's half-way cruel words suddenly stopped.

He shuddered as he looked at the sword that suddenly lay in front of him, close at hand—he had never seen anything so sharp and sharp!

Dare to point this thing at him...... Then don't blame him for peeing his pants!

The young man's strands trembled, and he took two steps back, falling to the ground in fright.

The sudden appearance of the guard took two steps forward and continued to point his sword at him.

Zheng Chao sat in place for a long time, like such a master who is good at hiding, his eldest nephew has prepared six for him.

Otherwise, it is up to him, where did it come from?

Can you successfully lecture all the way to Xiazhou?

Along the way, he has seen more of the darkness of human nature and the declining atmosphere of the world.

Zheng Chao sighed in his heart and asked them all to sit back and continue to listen to the class.

The two young men were so frightened that they didn't dare to disobey.

Zheng Chao first punished them to recite what they had learned today, and then punished them to use charcoal to write the three characters "heaven, earth, and man" that they had been learning recently on the ground hundreds of times, until the courtyard was full of writing, and the mud wall was nearly full.

In the end, the two of them were foaming at the mouth, their hands were stiff, their tears were dry, and they knelt on the ground and repented no longer daring.

Zheng Chao sighed in a low voice: "Convince people with virtue, and the joy is endless......

Along the way, he can be regarded as experiencing the happiness of Master Confucius.

Although he was not as tall as Master Kong Sheng, he was more than nine feet tall, but he had a guard from his eldest nephew to make up for his shortcomings.

But Zheng Chao did not easily believe the confessions of the two, and still handed them over to the village to deal with, as for how to deal with it, it has nothing to do with him.

The evil thoughts of human nature are difficult to get rid of, and there is too little he can do after all.

The power of one person is limited after all.

This journey to lectures was quite different from his original vision, and he was thinking about it every day.

The next day, Zheng Chao left the village, and before leaving, some villagers brought him some fruits and dry food from the autumn harvest.

Although there are evil thoughts here, there is also simplicity and goodness. This is true for one village, and the same is true for the world.

Therefore, in this world, it is still worth saving.

Zheng Chao packed his bags and continued on the road.

Next, he spent more than ten days all the way south and came to the boundary of Qianzhou.

Qianzhou is not a rich place, Zheng Chao originally set off from Xingyang, and then traveled all the way south, through Shannan Dongdao, and then through Xiazhou, and came to Qianzhou is also within a straight line of southbound.

Qianzhou was barren and far from the political center, and was often used as a place of degrading and banishment for convicted officials.

Last year, the beheading of the eldest grandson clan was imprisoned, and the rest of the eldest grandson clan who were not severely punished were banished here.

As soon as Zheng Chao entered Qianzhou, he received a private invitation from the eldest grandson's family.

The eldest grandson clan has deep roots, and unlike the other four major scholar clans, the eldest grandson family has always had a close relationship with the Li royal family, and the Cui family has secretly protected each other, so they have been able to preserve the last trace of foundation. Although the current situation is difficult, and the clansmen are not allowed to leave Qianzhou, they are still able to maintain the most basic activities in secret.

And Qianzhou is not far from Dongting, and the civil rebel forces led by Bian Chunliang have grown again and again, provoking people everywhere to respond to follow suit, and it has also affected Qianzhou several times.

In this way, Zheng Chao was invited by the eldest grandson's family to be a guest as soon as he arrived in Qianzhou.

The place where the eldest grandson clan lived in a group was monitored by the eyes and ears of the imperial court, so the place where they met was in a very remote courtyard in the city.

"Mr. Zheng, please—"

Entering the inner courtyard, two middle-aged members of the eldest grandson's family greeted him and led the way: "The head of my family has been waiting for a long time."

Zheng Chao: "I'm bothered."

Along the way, although these Changsun clan people are now all dressed in cloth clothes, they are no longer as glamorous as they used to be, but their manners, words and deeds are still decent and calm, and the most rare thing is that they are still in order, which shows that they are still united.

Zheng Chao sighed in his heart.

How many scholars, including their Zheng family, were liquidated by the imperial court, whether it was the clan rules or the hearts of the people, they were gradually dispersed, and it was easy to become a climate again.

And Zheng Chao can also vaguely perceive that the reason why the eldest grandson clan can maintain the status quo also has a lot to do with the "head of the family" in their mouths.

Like their Zheng family, the lineage of the eldest grandson family was also cut off, and only the cause law under the age of fourteen survived-

Now the head of the eldest grandson clan is the eldest grandson, who has just turned fourteen this year.

The family has undergone great changes, and most of the faces of the teenagers who have been forced to grow up quickly have faded from their youth

。 In just one year, his height has also soared a lot, and when he stood up to salute Zheng Chao, he was already as tall as Zheng Chao.

Zheng Chao returned the salute and said, "Zheng Moujie is a lonely commoner, and he has a notorious reputation for judging the clan, so it is really unexpected that he can be personally invited by the head of the eldest grandson family."

"Who is not cloth now." There was a look of admiration in the eyes of the eldest grandson: "I don't agree with Mr. Zheng's statement of judging the clan, if it weren't for Mr. Zheng's righteous act at that time, the Zheng clan in Xingyang is afraid that there is no one in a hundred." Mr. is well-intentioned, and the Zheng family will be able to slowly understand it in the future."

Zheng Chao was really surprised at this time, although he killed his brother and took the initiative to hand over the collection of books, although he was supported by the poor students, he was already notorious among the scholars, and in this regard, he and Ling An can be said to have the same stink.

The eldest grandson raised his hand and asked Zheng Chao to sit down and talk and drink tea.

After some conversation, Zheng Chao also mentioned what he had seen and heard along the way, chaos was rampant, government decrees were mixed, and people's livelihood was suffering.

The eldest grandson asked, "According to Mr. Zheng's high opinion, who in the Li clan has the most hope to stop the chaos in the world?"

In Changsun Shan's view, Zheng Chao is a master, a strange person, and the views of such people must be worth listening to.

And as his uncles said, Zheng Chao is now quite famous, and it would undoubtedly be a good thing if he could be drawn into the same camp.

Zheng Chao was silent for a moment and shook his head: "Zheng has been trapped in his family house for many years, not asking about the world, and now he is just a fledgling, and he can't make a judgment on the general trend of the world, and he is still in the process of panicking."

After speaking, Zheng Chao tried to ask the young man, if there was a suitable candidate.

The eldest grandson did not answer directly, but said: "This place is less than a thousand miles away from Yizhou, and the benevolent name of King Rong of Yizhou is often heard."

Zheng Chao's heart moved slightly: "Rong Wang Li Yin?"